Tag: photographers
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Lt Frederick Oscar Bovill in the Great War
Hon Lt Frederick Oscar Bovill born in London, England. His father a pickle merchant – one of his colleagues later recalling him as a ‘member of a pickle family.’ Film Industry Bovill entered the film industry in about 1906 with Gaumont, and joined Will Barker’s [qv] Barker Motion Photography around 1909. Cameraman on Barker’s ‘Sixty…
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Corporal Percy Harper Reeves in the Great War
Married to the Pecqueur Sisters of St-Pol-sur-Ternoise Corporal Percy Harper Reeves 422314 enlisted with the 44th Battalion, at twenty-two years of age, in Winnipeg on 18 March 1915. He stood 5′ 8″ tall, with a scar over the left eye. Dark complexion, brown eyes, and black hair. Born in Parishville, NY on 27 August 1893.…
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Lieutenant Ivor Castle in the Great War
Lieutenant Ivor Castle, the second of the three CWRO photographers, and the first war photographer of the Daily Mirror in the Great War. “At Liege I listened to a bombardment such as I had never heard in the Balkan wars; and yet the bombardment of Liege was but a dull firework display, an exhibition for…
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Captain Henry Edward Knobel in the Great War
Captain Henry Edward Knobel born 4 September 1871 in Burton-on-Trent, Derby England. Father Edward Knobel Residing at 32, Tavistock Square, Derby, England. Rising steadily in the ranks, Knobel became O/C of the 8th Battalion, then Staff Captain of the 2nd Canadian Infantry Brigade, and finally a special assignment as the first Official Photographer of the…
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Lieutenant William Rider Rider in the Great War
Honourary Lieutenant William Rider Rider the third, and final official Canadian War Photographer of the Great War. Many sources incorrectly refer to Rider being wounded during the Great War. No such thing occurred, though he did put himself in the position to have been wounded on many occasions. The so-called wounding, actually an indiscretion for…